is a well-known merchant of Polk County, Ark., but was born in Sevier County, of this State, on July 26, 1854, being a son of Henry Y. and Rebecca (ROWSEY) Rind, natives of Virginia, who moved from there to the Choctaw Nation in 1835. While a resident of his native State Henry Y. RIND began preparing himself for the ministry, graduating from a college of that State, and was afterward sent by the Methodist Episcopal Church South to the Choctaw Nation, and spent ten years as a missionary among the Indians. He then moved to near White Oak, Tex., but after two years spent in tht State he came to Arkansas, being a resident of Sevier County until during the war, when he moved to Dallas, Polk County, Ark. After four more years spent in the Choctaw Nation he once more returned to Polk County, where he passed from life about 1879. While in Sevier County he was clerk of the circuit court, a position he also held in Polk County, his service in this capacity extending over a period of twenty years. He also filled other minor positions, and during the Rebellion was in a regiment of Arkansas cavalry. He was captain of a company, and served east of the Mississippi River the most of the time, taking part in many battles. In politics he was a Democrat, and socially he was a Mason and a member of the I.O.O.F. His widow is still living, and resides with the subject of this sketch, being now seventy-four years of age, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their children are: Joshua (a farmer of Franklin County, Ark.). George, (a farmer of the Chickasaw Nation), and Fanny REDDING (wife of Henry REDDING, of Greer County, Texas.) Samuel RIND spent his school days in Polk County, Ark., and the Indian Territory, his father and mother being his principal teachers. At the age of eighten years he commenced to farm and raise stock, a calling he has since followed. He moved to where he now resides in 1886, and although his farm is small it is admirably conducted, and yields a much larger income that many more pretentious places. He engaged in merchandising about 1885, and to this calling has given considerable of his attention ever since, and has built up a prosperous trade. He was married in 1876 to Miss Frances COOPER, who died about one year later, leaving one child, a son, named William F. His second marriage was consummated in 1881, Miss Roxie BARBER becoming his wife, and in time the mother of his three children: Florence, Nola G. and Robert F. Mr. RIND has always been a Democrat, and as a prosperous, law-abiding citizen ranks among the leading men of this section."